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    • June 1, 2003 at 9:36 am #1648
      kramer
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      Sounds like a cool name for a rock group. It is also seemingly a common feature amongst kids in Pakistan, particularly up in the north, foreign cyclists being the recipients, plus it happens around Baluchistan as well. I even had some kids chucking stones up in Swat Kohistan while I was in the back of a 4WD. What other places in the world is it common for kids to throw rocks and stones at tourists?

    • June 1, 2003 at 11:34 am #4130
      Anonymous
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      East Jerusalem

    • June 1, 2003 at 11:37 am #4131
      Anonymous
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      ROB, still problems with the log in….

    • June 1, 2003 at 12:03 pm #4132
      ROB
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      Met a few of this species in Jordan. As luck would have it, I had also made friends with the local school headmaster. He knew exactly who the culprits were. Justice was swift and harsh. :twisted:

    • June 2, 2003 at 12:52 am #4133
      NGrubeck
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      Ethiopia is especially bad.

    • June 2, 2003 at 3:59 am #4134
      Anonymous
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      …dodgy northside suburbs is the only place I’ve had stones thrown at me. Leading up to Guy Fawkes night (NOV 5th) is worse when they throw those big fuckoff fire crackers instead. The only other thing I’ve copped is water bombs in Cambodia and Thailand during Songkran, and a lot of dirty looks.

    • June 2, 2003 at 9:16 pm #4135
      rickshaw92
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      Water during Songkran aside, I have never had anything thrown at me and I have been to both Pakistan and E Jerusalem.

    • June 3, 2003 at 2:29 am #4136
      ROB
      Keymaster

      Was it because of your movie star good looks or winning personality? :wink:

    • June 3, 2003 at 7:34 pm #4137
      Anonymous
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      Moviestar look or winning personality?
      Can’t be either, I have met the guy!
      I think it is because they missed and he was to drunk to notice it.
      And as everybody knows, close only counts with handgrenades…

    • December 3, 2004 at 8:25 am #4138
      jcbierley1
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      a cat in the Tunis souk!

      India : bad for women alone, ya could get stoned

      rural Lesotho : a PCV had her head caved in with a rock (but the assailant was an adult)

    • December 3, 2004 at 4:06 pm #4139
      Lee Ridley
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      Only one place that I’ve been, where I noticed this was an issue: Uganda.
      Specifically up around Lake Bunyonyi in the west, near Kabale.

      Bastard nearly got me, too!

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